Example sentences of "[noun pl] came [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were sold at auction , his library dispersed , but many of his , books came back to Lamb House as gifts to the Henry James Room . |
| 2 | At that , Theda 's eyes came round to Benedict 's and he grinned , his expression rueful . |
| 3 | Nails took such a proposition in his stride , unworried ; Jazz , although slightly apprehensive , was keen because swimming was the discipline he most enjoyed and was making the best progress in ; only Hoomey 's eyes came out on stalks at the presumption . |
| 4 | Clients came in at 45p plus , only to see the share price drop rapidly to 18p , although it did later recover . |
| 5 | Princess Diana gave birth to a son and things looked like fast returning to normal in Britain as nurses came out on strike , the London tube drivers came out on strike and the NUR threatened a strike . |
| 6 | His brothers came back with stories of heaving and hacking coal : even Daddy Ni still worked at the face : even Elfed , seen as the over-restraining killjoy , worked down there . |
| 7 | The words came out without thinking , and Folly bit her lip . |
| 8 | It paid dividends and , as the scheme grew , many of the beneficiaries came back in order to help others . |
| 9 | In a first round of voting during the summer , and then during their closed-doors assembly at a secret spot in Berlin yesterday , the musicians came out in favour of a likeable man who has worked well with all kinds of orchestras , and who is diplomatic rather than autocratic . |
| 10 | Chandos 's latest ‘ Collect ’ releases came out in February and include more boyce from Cantilena , Elgar wind music ( Athena ) , Stravinsky Symphonies with the RSO/Gibson , and delightful Vivaldi Concertos from the Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Thomas . |
| 11 | Even the loan of his father 's rod had n't helped him to catch anything , although his father had caught two trout whose scales came off on Stuart 's hands and gleamed silver in the soft light . |
| 12 | Also the ghost stories of certain houses came in for comment and there is a long note on the haunting of Calgarth Hall . |
| 13 | To pack and process them he needed staff , so our terms stipulated a minimum of two months ' summer work , the understanding being that when contracts came up for renewal , priority would be given to those who had put in most time on the slime-line . |
| 14 | In terms of visiting and recorded contacts with other agencies , the specialist team displayed a clearer pattern of activities than the other teams : while cases remained open they visited more , and did not ‘ monitor only ’ ; if closed and re-opened , cases came back for re-assessment in fewer numbers ; and in both categories the rate of contacts with other agencies was higher . |
| 15 | Another 500 East Germans came out through Hungary in the 24 hours to yesterday morning , bringing the total who have left since Hungary opened its borders on 11 September to 26,500 . |
| 16 | Did they get excited when a new supply of lapis lazuli came in from Afghanistan ? |
| 17 | Later on that week we were talking in the library again and somehow the topic of owls came up in conversation once more . |
| 18 | The UK and other European countries came out in favour of setting strict targets on emissions of carbon dioxide , methane and nitrous oxides . |
| 19 | Some fifty years ago the engineers came up with devices that could record the electrical activity of living brains and living nerve cells . |
| 20 | The damp retreated down the walls , the gardens came back to life and there was fresh food in the kitchen . |
| 21 | Fortunately my fellow walkers ' feet came out in sympathy . |
| 22 | A tow to the SS Reina Del Pacifico was followed by a wash in the Chief Petty Officers ' quarters , interrupted by two hits on the ship from a French battery , and when the canoeists came back on deck they found the canoe had been stripped by souvenir hunters , who now began asking for autographs . |
| 23 | There is little evidence of either the presence or practical aid of Russian priests in the afflicted rural areas , though a considerable number of West European churchmen came in with relief organizations . |
| 24 | ‘ I did it for an introduction before the films came out in Europe , ’ he says . |
| 25 | Given the lack of clear and early advice , the General Council 's policy was ignored and many second line workers came out in support of the miners . |
| 26 | The apostles came down to Somaria , they laid hands on them and they were receiving the Holy Spirit . |
| 27 | Nils came up with El Paradise , a strip club in Soho 's Brewer Street , It fitted . |
| 28 | Lardner 's volumes were not quite an encyclopedia , since each one could stand on its own : volumes came out at intervals , and buyers do not seem to have been made to subscribe to the whole set . |
| 29 | Strandli came on for Rocky towards the end . |
| 30 | With my cheek resting on the worn linoleum things came back into focus almost at once . |